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The article presents several international initiatives that are making digital collections from libraries and cultural institutions available to researchers on the Internet. In September 2008, the Organization of American States (OAS) agreed to contribute materials to the U.S. Library of Congress' World Digital Library. The Wellcome Library is partnering with the Bibliotheca Alexandrina to make available its collection of Egyptian and Arabic medical manuscripts. A pilot program, to be finished in late 2009 at the University of Manchester's John Rylands University Library, will digitize medieval texts including early manuscripts of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales and John Wyclif's Latin to English translation of the New Testament.

Announces that the Library of Congress has made its collection of Thomas Jefferson papers available online at the American Memory Web site. How the Jefferson papers include correspondence, memorandum, notes, and manuscript volumes; Consideration of how the local link resolver can link from the HLAS Online records to the Web resources.

Reports that the ethnographic field collection `Voices of the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection' from the Library of Congress is available from the American Memory Program at its web site address. Contents of the collection; Reference to the documentation of the everyday life of residents of Farm Security Administration migrant work camps in central California in 1940 and 1941; Contact point for source of the collection.